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PAUL JOSEPH FELDMAN

Assistant Professor · Texas A&M University

College Station, TX · paul.feldman@tamu.edu

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: ACADEMIC POSITIONS  :

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[2022–present] Assistant Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, Texas A&M University

               Affiliated Researcher, Human Behavior Laboratory, Texas A&M University

[2019–2022] Postdoctoral Fellow, Carey Business School and Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins University

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: EDUCATION :

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[2019] Ph.D. in Economics, University of California, San Diego

       Dissertation: “Essays on Risk and Time”

[2012] M.Sc. in Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)

[2009] B.Sc. in Economics, Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)

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: RESEARCH FIELDS :

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Decision Theory, Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics

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: PUBLICATIONS  :

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- “Incentives and Payment Mechanisms in Preference Elicitation” (with Andreas C. Drichoutis and Marco A. Palma). Experimental Economics, 2026.

- “Revealed Preference Tests for Linear Probability-Prize Tradeoffs” (with Zachary Breig). Theory and Decision, 2026, 100(2): 403–425.

- “Revealing Risky Mistakes through Revisions” (with Zachary Breig). Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 2024, 68(3): 227–254.

- “Honesty in the City” (with Martin Dufwenberg, Maroš Servátka, Jorge Tarrasó, and Radovan Vadovič). Games and Economic Behavior, 2023, 139: 15–25.

- “Revealing a Preference for Mixtures: An Experimental Study of Risk” (with John Rehbeck). Quantitative Economics, 2022, 13(2): 761–786.

-- Invited Review --

- “Cognitive Economics” (with Anujit Chakraborty). Annual Review of Resource Economics, 2027.

-- Other Publications --

- “Behavioral Science Advisory Boards Could Strengthen USDA’s Conservation Program amid Unprecedented Spending and Loading Dock Challenges” (with Kent D. Messer, Diya Ganguly, Rich Iovanna, and Julie Suhr Pierce). Choices, 2024, 39(3).

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: WORKING PAPERS  :

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- “Certain Reversals” (with Paul J. Ferraro). Under review.

- “Experimental Tests of Incomplete Preferences” (with Nan Zhou). Reject and resubmit, Journal of Economic Theory.

- “Disentangling Risk and Other-Regarding Preferences” (with Kristian López-Vargas).

- “Please Don’t Lie to Me: On the Tradeoff between Obedience and Altruism” (with N. Yang, Marco A. Palma, and C. Magnuson).

- “Higher-Order Risk Preferences Do Not Predict Climate Action” (with Marco A. Palma and Andreas C. Drichoutis). Under review.

- “Monetary Elicitations Yield Believable Discount Rates Estimates” (with Paul J. Ferraro and Collin Weigel).

- “Deliberation and Differences Determine Difficult Decisions” (with David E. Buschena and David Zilberman).

- “A Stream of Prospects or a Prospect of Streams: On the Evaluation of Intertemporal Risks” (with James Andreoni and Charles Sprenger). NBER Working Paper 24075, 2017.

-- Work in Progress --

- “Risk Preferences” (with Ben Enke, Ryan Oprea, and Ferdinand Vieider). Review article.

- “Incomplete Markets” (with Anujit Chakraborty)

- “Three Domains” (with Anujit Chakraborty)

- “Consistently Paternalistic” (with Anujit Chakraborty and Kristian López-Vargas)

- “Political Rationality” (with Anujit Chakraborty and Nathan Canen)

- “Coarse Reasoning” (with Radovan Vadovič)

- “Common Value Auctions Reversals” (with Andrei Gomberg)

- “Social Preference Reversals” (with Ernesto Gavassa-Pérez)

- “Self-Control” (with Marissa Lepper and Marco A. Palma)

- “Evaluating the Endowment Effect for Risk” (with Kent D. Messer and Lusi Xie)

- “Minimizing Risks or Avoiding Losses?” (with Siun Lee and Dmitry Vedenov)

- “Do Groups Chase Paper Losses?” (with Siun Lee)

- “Just Quit: Hope Influences an Individual’s Persistence Levels” (with Amelia Ahles, Joanna Lahey, and Marco A. Palma)

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: GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS,  :

: AND AWARDS            :

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-- Research Grants --

- USDA Farm Service Agency, 2023–2026, $500,000 (PI). “Empowering Citizen Science via the Optimization of Financial Incentive Schemes and Technical Assistance to Improve Conservation Outcomes in the Conservation Reserve Program” (with Kent D. Messer and Lusi Xie).

- Walton Family Foundation, 2024–2026, $150,000. “Addressing the Challenges of the New Federal Funding for Conservation: Empowering Citizen Science and Testing the Cost-Effectiveness of Financial Incentive Schemes versus Technical Assistance to Improve Sustained Conservation Outcomes for NRCS Programs” (with Diya Ganguly and Kent D. Messer).

- Network for Studies on Pensions, Aging and Retirement (Netspar), €25,000. “Integrated Measurement of Sustainability, Risk, and Time Preferences: An Empirical Test” (with Jan Schmitz, Jorgo Goossens, Sven Klijnhout, and Niels Kortleve).

-- Fellowships and Awards --

[2019] Humane Studies Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies

[2018] Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation

[2018] Dissertation Grant, Koch Foundation

[2018] Summer Graduate Research Fellowship, Institute for Humane Studies

[2017, 2018] Graduate Student Research Grant, University of California, San Diego

[2013] Summer Graduate Research Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of California, San Diego

[2012–2016] Doctoral Fellowship, CONACYT/UC MEXUS

[2012] Competitive EDGE Summer Research Program, University of California, San Diego

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: INVITED SEMINARS  :

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[2026] Virginia Tech; UC Santa Cruz; UC Davis; UC Riverside

[2025] Iowa State University; El Colegio de México

[2024] George Mason University; Virtual East Asia Experimental and Behavioral Economics Seminar Series

[2023] Auburn University

[2022] Universidad de Alicante; Florida State University; Texas A&M University; California State University, Northridge; Federal Trade Commission

[2021] Universidad San Francisco de Quito

[2020] George Mason University (brown bag); ESA Junior Faculty Webinar; University of Queensland (cancelled)

[2019] Norwegian School of Economics; University of Bristol

[2018] George Mason University (brown bag); West Virginia University (brown bag)

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: CONFERENCE    :

: PRESENTATIONS :

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[2026] XXIII RIDGE Forum (LACEA BRAIN); Southern Economic Association, Houston (scheduled); ESA North American Meetings, Virginia (scheduled)

[2025] ESA North American Meetings, Tucson; ESA Asia-Pacific Meetings; Science of Philanthropy Initiative, University of Chicago; Texas Experimental Association Symposium; Lima Experimental and Behavioral Conference; Association for Private Enterprise Education; AAEA & WAEA Joint Annual Meeting, Denver; Southern Agricultural Economics Association; SCC-76 Annual Meeting, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

[2024] ASSA Annual Meeting (AEA/Econometric Society), San Antonio; ESA World Meeting, Bogotá; ESA North American Meetings, Columbus; Southern Economic Association, Washington, DC; The Chicago School in Experimental Economics: Piotr Evdokimov Memorial Conference, Mexico City; UDEP Workshop in Experimental Economics, Lima; Workshop of Experimental and Behavioral Economics of the Americas (WEBEAS), online; AAEA Annual Meeting, New Orleans; SCC-76 Annual Meeting, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

[2023] Decision: Theory, Experiments, and Applications (D-TEA), Paris; ESA North American Meetings, Charlotte; ESA Asia Meetings, Seoul; Behavioral and Experimental Economists of the Mid-Atlantic Workshop, Federal Reserve Bank of New York; AAEA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC; Southern Agricultural Economics Association, Oklahoma

[2022] Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), online; ESA Global Conference, online; Advances in Decision Analysis, Arlington; Experimental Economics Conference, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Galápagos; WEBEAS, online; Eastern Economic Meetings, Jamaica; AAEA Annual Meeting, Anaheim

[2021] North American Summer Meeting of the Econometric Society; Decision: Theory, Experiments, and Applications (D-TEA) Workshop; ESA Global Conference; ESA North American Meetings and Job Market Showcase; Western Economic Association International (WEAI), San Francisco; ITAM Alumni Conference

[2020] Utah Experimental Economics Conference; ESA Global Conference; Southern Economic Association; ITAM Alumni Conference; Foundations of Utility and Risk (cancelled)

[2019] Advances in Field Experiments; ESA North American Meetings; Utah Experimental Economics Conference; China Center’s Inaugural Behavioral, Biological and Experiment Economics Conference; Western Economic Association International (WEAI); Behavioral and Experimental Economists of the Mid-Atlantic V

[2018] Foundations of Utility and Risk (FUR); ESA World Meeting; ESA North American Meetings; IHS Research Colloquium; Young Scholars Behavior and Society Group; ITAM Alumni Conference

[2017] Price Theory Summer Camp; Southwest Experimental and Behavioral Economics; IHS Research Colloquium; ITAM Alumni Conference

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: TEACHING  :

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-- Texas A&M University --

- Managerial Economics (AGEC 619), graduate

- Behavioral Economics, undergraduate

- Frontiers in Applied Market Analysis (AGEC 676), Ph.D. field course in Markets and Trade; co-taught, behavioral decision theory component

- Career Development Seminar (AGEC 681), graduate

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: PH.D. ADVISING  :

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-- Chair / Co-Chair --

- Siun Lee (2026, co-chair). First position: Assistant Professor, Texas State University. AAEA Best Graduate Student Paper in Applied Risk Analysis (2023).

-- Committee Member --

- Youan Qian (2026).

- Amelia Ahles (2023). First position: Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Oklahoma State University; currently Assistant Professor, Purdue University. SAEA Outstanding Dissertation Award (2024).

- Current: Samantha Cevallos-Colonel (exp. 2027), Kelvin Bobbie (exp. 2029), Ben Horlick (exp. 2030).

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: PROFESSIONAL SERVICE  :

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-- Referee --

Review of Economic Studies; Econometrica; American Economic Review; Journal of Economic Theory; Games and Economic Behavior; European Economic Review; Experimental Economics; Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization; Journal of Risk and Uncertainty; Social Choice and Welfare; Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics; PNAS Nexus; Journal of Productivity Analysis; Latin American Economic Review; American Journal of Agricultural Economics; European Review of Agricultural Economics; Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics; Journal of the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

-- Conference Organization and Leadership --

- Lead Organizer, Economic Science Association North American Meetings, Mexico City, 2027

- Organizer, Lima Experimental and Behavioral Conference (WEBEAS in-person), 2025

- Co-organizer, Workshop of Experimental and Behavioral Economics of the Americas (WEBEAS)

- Chair-elect, Experimental Economics Section, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

- Abstract reviewer: AAEA Annual Meetings (2024, 2025); European Association of Agricultural Economists (2025)

-- University Service (Texas A&M) --

- Faculty Search Committee, Department of Agricultural Economics (2023, 2024, 2025)

- Graduate Advisory Committee (2022–present)

- Aviles-Johnson Fellowships Selection Committee

- Graduate Symposia Faculty Judge (2026)

-- Memberships --

American Economic Association; Econometric Society; Economic Science Association; American Society of Hispanic Economists; Behavioral and Experimental Economists of the Mid-Atlantic; Agricultural and Applied Economics Association; Southern Agricultural Economics Association

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: REFERENCES  :

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Available upon request.

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